Comments on: Bulldozers Destroy Uncontacted People’s Landhttp://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bulldozers-destroy-uncontacted-people%e2%80%99s-land/
a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justiceSat, 27 Sep 2014 17:28:19 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: kalidashttp://dissidentvoice.org/2009/10/bulldozers-destroy-uncontacted-people%e2%80%99s-land/#comment-56940
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:11:41 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=11027#comment-56940These people matter about as much as the Tamils matter. Not much.
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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:46:10 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=11027#comment-56903The facts in this Survival International article are both shocking and sad. Are the politicians powerless to stop these multinational logging and cattle ranchers. The answer of course is for the West to stop eating dead cattle and to boycott the criminals who are perpetrating the crimes..

In Western Brazil, another South American tribe, the Akuntsus have all but been wiped out.
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‘Much of the Akuntsus’ story is – for obvious reasons – undocumented. For millennia, they lived in obscurity, deep in the rainforest of Rondonia state, a remote region of western Brazil near the Bolivian border. They hunted wild pig, agoutis and tapir, and had small gardens in their villages, where they would grow manioc (or cassava) and corn.

Then, in the 1980s, their death warrant was effectively signed: farmers and loggers were invited to begin exploring the region, cutting roads deep into the forest, and turning the once verdant wilderness into lucrative soya fields and cattle ranches.

Fiercely industrious, the new migrant workers knew that one thing might prevent them from creating profitable homesteads from the rainforest: the discovery of uncontacted tribes, whose land is protected from development under the Brazilian constitution.

As a result, frontiersmen who first came across the Akuntsu in the mid-1980s made a simple calculation. The only way to prevent the government finding out about this indigenous community was to wipe them off the map.’